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Yuja Wang was born in Beijing, on February 10, 1987. She began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

By the age of 21 she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. She has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In an interview with the LA Times, she said “For me, playing music is about transporting to another way of life, another way of being. An actress does that.”

Mendelssohn - Trio No 2 - Wang, Piano; Kavakos, Violin; Capucon, Cello

Mendelssohn – Trio No. 2 – Wang, Kavakos, Capuçon

Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1845 and published in February 1846. The work is scored for a standard piano trio consisting of violin, cello and piano.

Prokofiev - Sonata No 6 in A Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Sonata No. 6 – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82 (1940) is a sonata in four movements for solo piano by Sergei Prokofiev, the first of the Three War Sonatas.

Liszt - Transcendental Étude No 5, Feux Follets - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Feux Follets – Wang, Piano

Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions.

Chopin - 24 Preludes for Piano Op 28 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 24 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Prelude No 24 in D Minor is the last one of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28, a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839.

Yuja Wang speaks about her childhood... and more.

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Yuja Wang Talks about her Childhood… and More

Yuja Wang, born February 10, 1987, is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Stravinsky - Trois Mouvements de Petrushka - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Stravinsky – Trois Mouvements de Petrushka – Wang, Piano

Trois mouvements de Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 87 in B Minor - Yuja Wang

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K 87 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K 87 in B Minor was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.

Mozart-Volodos - Turkish March - Yuja Wang, piano

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / CLASSICAL MUSIC / March / Piano / Sonata

Mozart/Volodos/Wang – Turkish March – Wang, piano

The Turkish March is the third and last movement from Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major (but the Turkish March is in A Minor). Arcadi Volodos is a Russian pianist and composer, born in 1972.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana – Yuja Wang, Piano

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850.

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Steinway: New or Used, Before to Buy, 5 Things to Know

As price for a new Steinway piano are exorbitant you could be tempted by a used or restored one but they are still not cheap and they are things you should take care when buying one.